At 6 a.m. on the French coast hundreds of men await and all of them know that there is a line of guns waiting for them. Hal is one of the soldiers and he is Jewish and wants revenge on the Germans. As a solider they gave Hal the opportunity to change his religion so that if he was captured then he would not have to pay the Jewish consequences. He decided to keep it on his dog tag and put a Jewish star on the back of his jacket. The MG42 is the Nazis new gun and is the fastest gun made. It can fire up to 1500 bullets per min or 25 / sec. There are 5 guns waiting for them on the beach and the boat that Hal is in is being fired at. Hal’s boat takes in so much water that it is starting to sink and a lot of people are getting sea sick. Before they were on the boats the Navy gave the soldiers a big feast and made them throw up on sea. The soldiers are using their helmets to scoop out water and vomit. Once the door opened on the boat the Nazis started to shoot.
At 6:38 am thousands of troops are starting to land. The GI are told not to jump off the side and they all did. Their assault jackets are the main thing that is holding them down at the bottom. The more sea sick you are the more likely you are to drown. The water was the main thing that saved some of the soldiers because when bullets hit water they slow down. 1,450 soldiers came and over a third died in just an hour. Two minutes after landing on Omaha beach Hal crawls out of the water and onto land. Omaha was known as the bloodiest beach. The men have to cross the beach over 1000 yards. They were trying to figure out to get tanks to swim. The DD Tank was the first tank that could “swim”. The tanks are sitting 6000 yards from the beach. Once on the beach there should be a tank every 50ft but they couldn’t really get them on the water because of the huge waves. 3 miles from shore they launch their tanks. Water starts to come into the DD boat. 27 out of the 29 tanks sink.
7 a.m. there are hundreds of dead allies soldiers dead on Omaha Beach. There are 14 sand bunkers that are along the beach, the German soldiers have lived in the bunkers for months before D-Day. There was a magician that wanted to help in the war and he joins the force called the Majic Gang in North Africa. They made Jeeps look like Tanks and Tanks look like trucks. They make a plan to cut out the power and then 300 miles down the road set a fake camp. The Allies made a fake military base with inflatable tanks and trucks. Romel is a German General that wanted his troops to be the best. He also thought the Samole Beach looked just like Omaha beach so he upgrade the beach because he didn’t want the same thing to happen at Samole Beach. The Germans don’t know how many people that they kill until the bodies start to wash up on the beach. Hal’s best friend died right in front of him and some of his blood got on Hal’s face.
7:10a.m. Hal knows that he is going to die because he has to avoid bombs. Vergal Mounts was only 15 years old and he is responsible to patch up injured men to make them keep fighting. A fragment of a bomb shell went through Vergal and he died instantly. There were a lot of tanks that were positioned under the bunkers. The cloud cover was told to wait until they drop a bomb and not a single bomb hit the gun positions. Hal is at the start at the flat exposed beach. His bullets saved his life. 7:30 am the Allied soldiers find themselves in a bad situation. There were a group of men that was trained for a suicide mission. They must climb 150 ft while being shot at and then once they get to the top they must fight to win. They made rocket powered grafling hook but the thing failed because the ropes were sprayed in sea water and it slowed the graphenal down. Out of the 60 hooks only 19 were dry enough to work. At the top they have to fight and once they got there the Germans faked the attack and it was only poles that were set up there to make it look like guns.
Over the last 90 min Hal has zigzagged over the beach and has seen men die right in front of him. Bombs are more frightening then the machine gun. Hal was hit by shrapnel and the concussion and almost ripped his left check off. Behind the German troops there is a French Resistance and the German Troops will kill any spies. The Resistance try their best to stop the Germans by cutting their telephone wires and blowing up railroads. The German Troops soon realized what the resistance was doing so they shot the pigeons down and killed everyone who was in the resistance. 9:30 am the American assault is decreasing in size a lot. The men are near the ocean wall and the tide is rising on one side and the German soldiers are attacking on the other side. The Allies drop out bomb filled dumbies that are coming to land. Hundreds of paratroopers land in flooded fields and had to get out of the parachutes as fast as they can. 13000 paratroopers jumped and hundreds of them drowned.
The documentary still went on but I thought that I typed enough. I didn't know that the Allies set up a fake camp that had inflatable tanks and trucks and other stuff like that. They were pretty smart about putting bombs into fake paratroopers. The documentary made went through it step by step on what the people did and what the generals did. I really liked it because it is very detailed.
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